Casting: Malkovich, Lang, Tisdale, Larson

The Giacomo Variations
John Malkovich will re-team with Austrian film director Michael Sturminger for a big screen adaptation of the chamber opera play "The Giacomo Variations".

Malkovich will play the role of an aging Casanova, reliving past exploits in a surreal series of operatic flashbacks. [Source: Screen Daily]

The 34th Battalion
Vinnie Jones and Stephen Lang have joined the ensemble cast of the $20 million saga "The 34th Battalion" about an Australian Army unit that fought heroic battles against the Germans during World War I.